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Burroughs Adding Machine, ca. 1909
Paul Levinson purchased this adding machine from a Seattle bank about 1915 to use in his dry goods business. When he sold his business and began work with Arthur Herschman at Transpacific Merchandise Company, he brought the machine along, continuing to use it until he passed away in 1965.
ID Number:1966.3863
Date:Circa 1909
Wooden baby cradle made by Julius Christison, 1893
Julius Christison came from Denmark to Seattle in 1887. He worked as a cabinetmaker in one of Seattle's earliest furniture factories, the Hall & Paulson Furniture Company (established 1874). He was later employed as a carpenter by the Pacific Manufacturing Company. By 1899 he had adapted to modern mechanization sufficiently to work as a a "machine hand" at Rolfs and…
ID Number:1966.3878.49
Date:1893
Glass bottle, "Pure Cider Vinegar" from C.M. Bogle Packing Co., 1923
Chelsey M. Bogle, originally from Mississippi, came west for the Gold Rush and settled in Seattle in the early 1900s where he established the C.M. Bogle Packing Co. He was also president of the Seattle Can Company in 1917.
ID Number:1966.3879.5
Date:1923
Straight razor from Vincent Amato's barber shop, ca. 1912
Italian American immigrant Vincent Amato came to Seattle in 1899. He owned a barbershop at 1311 East Jefferson in Seattle from 1912-1948.
ID Number:1966.3908.4
Date:Circa 1912
Package of Old Homestead Brand fruit jar rings, ca. 1919-1945
These fruit jar rings were made by the Matchett-Macklem Company, an early Seattle grocery distributor, ca. 1919-1945.
ID Number:1966.3910.10
Date:Circa 1919-1945
Elgin pocket watch, ca. mid-late 1800s
This watch belonged to Watson Allen who was born in New Jersey in 1842 and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He settled in Seattle sometime after the war and was elected the King County representative to the first Washington State legislature in 1889. During his life in Seattle, Allen accomplished the following: promoted the development of…
ID Number:1966.3928.1
Date:Circa 1850-1890
Container for Powdered Pumice Stone from Bartell Drug Stores, Seattle, ca. 1900
Bartell Drugs, established in 1890, was one of the oldest and long-standing family-owned stores in Seattle until it was sold to Rite Aid in 2020. George H. Bartell Sr. (1868–1956) purchased the Lake Washington Pharmacy at 2711 South Jackson Street in Seattle's Central District in 1890, and that was the beginning of a long-lived and beloved Seattle business.
ID Number:1966.3957.6b
Date:Circa 1900
Framed photograph of the launching of US Army Transport "Seward" at Moran Shipyard, Seattle, April 6, 1900, (c) Peiser
Robert Moran (1857-1943) came to Seattle in 1875 with just change in his pockets but, by 1900, he was one of the wealthiest individuals in the city. He and his brother established the Moran Bros. Shipyard which became a major shipbuilding company. Starting in 1892,the Moran Bros. won several government contracts to build ships for the military including the army…
ID Number:1966.4014
Date:1900
Large spool of black thread, used by Seattle's first childrens' tailor, ca. 1915
Solomon Bierman Pruschansky came to Seattle from Dansig, Prussia, in 1915. His tailor shop was first located across from Broadway High School on Capital Hill in Seattle, then he moved to University Street across from the Olympic Hotel.
ID Number:1966.4043.1
Date:Circa 1915
Goose down lounging booties, 1967
Eddie Bauer advertised its Mt. Everest insulated slippers as "ideal for keeping feet warm in tent or cabin." Eddie Bauer supplied all of the down equipment for the 1963 American Mount Everest expeditions and used the name in its product line.
ID Number:1967.4134.1
Date:1967